"Remember When" Wednesday...

I love family vacations.  I love getting to spend an entire week with my husband and children alone and away from our day to day schedules.  I love hearing my kids say things like, "hey do you remember on the beach when..." or "remember last year in California when..."  Taking a yearly family vacation is something that I did as a kid, and I'm glad that it is a tradition that Andy and I have incorporated into our own family.  I'm the planner, the one who chooses where we go, makes all the arrangements, and plans all the activities...and I find that even before we're unpacked from one vacation, my mind is already thinking ahead to where we would enjoy going next.  Our world is an amazing place...there are so many places to see and things to do! 

 

Today I found myself thinking a lot about last summer's Oregon Coast trip.  I went through all of our pictures and chose some highlights.

 

Brooklynn and the seafoam...beautiful!

Mom...trailguide extraordinaire!

Lainah's important phone call...

Lainah dragging seaweed...yuck!

Rachel finding jellyfish...

Tay being Lainah's "prince."

Addy hiding in the TV console

Daddy & Addy watching the sunset off our balcony

Matthew overcoming his fear of the water

Taylor auditioning for Baywatch...

driftwood fires on the beach

Addy's cute chubby baby legs!

What!?!  Turn of the century lighthouses had thermostats?  Who knew!

Sharing jokes with Rachel

hiking with these clowns

Eewww!  Slimy Squishy Slugs!  Everywhere!

Pretending we're on "Survivor" and realizing...nope...I'd rather have chowder.

Lainah braving the slug stick

Mom's closeup shot...a cool funnel web

Tay's closeup shot...somebody's litter

Sleepy Addy...snuggled on Andy's back

Finding a secret mystical Pirate's Cove...or so we imagined

 

touring lighthouses...

Finding primitive tiny people huts deep in the Oregon coastal forests...

We had so much fun...can't wait to go back in a couple years!